Ciarán de Buitléar

So the walled garden, Simone, has been here a long time, but it's not my garden.

And the people who own the garden have generously allowed me to grow vegetables and food here.

And also we grow in conjunction with nature and wildlife rather than against them.

We're all together in this.

all together who's we we being myself and marie and dominica who helped me here in the garden and truth be known they do all the work yeah and they're local they live in simoleon yeah we being nature and wildlife and the insects and the birds and we all look after the land together so where we are here now we're just inside the wall we're right up here at the top of the garden which you've dedicated to growing food

So this is where we grow our food organically and we have raised beds here because they work very well around here and also a large part of the garden we've left largely to nature because we find that helps nature and it helps us to grow our food because the balance of nature means we don't get pests and bugs or we don't get very many of them and the food still grows.

looking at some of the food here you've got cabbages typical vegetables that people will grow but these are all organic as you say they're all organic it's not certified but we follow organic principles we don't use sprays we don't use chemicals we don't use artificial fertilizers we're not zealous about it but we do things in probably a natural way and that's the food we want to eat yeah yeah so that's why we grow it that way

So we put in a wildlife pond.

We got it on a free cycle.

One of these websites, a man was just getting rid of it.

And we put it in there and we left it.

And we said, well, the frogs might find it.

And they have.

I can see the tadpoles in there.

Sure, yeah.

One of the neighbours got their bathroom done up and they said, Ciarán, do you want an old bath?

So I said, yes.

And well, Dominique dug it out.

Right.

She dug that out and we put the bath in.